MICHELE MULRONEY & KIERAN MULRONEY (WRITERS/DIRECTORS)

Michele and Kieran Mulroney are a Los Angeles-based husband-and-wife screenwriting team whose partnership begins with their 17-year marriage.

Their writing projects include the long-awaited, superhero-filled Justice League: Mortal, The Sleeping Father and Equals, all for Warner Bros. Previously, they spent a season writing for the Emmy-nominated PBS series Wishbone. They have also worked as script doctors on numerous films, including Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Poseidon, The Lakehouse and Mirrors.

A one-time actor whose film and television credits include John Hughes's Career Opportunities, the Emmy Award Winning series From the Earth to the Moon and the Sundance award-winner The Spitfire Grill, Kieran is a graduate of Columbia University where he studied English Literature and Film Theory.

Michele graduated from the University of London and trained as a director at the Central School of Speech & Drama in London. The author of a number of plays and musicals, Michele has directed for the stage in both the United Kingdom and Los Angeles. She was the executive producer of the films Wild Tigers I Have Known and Sunny & Share Love You, the latter of which she also co-wrote and stars in.

Currently, the Mulroneys are writing the sequel to Warner’s Sherlock Holmes for director Guy Ritchie. They are working on a project for director Ron Howard and Imagine Entertainment and a movie musical for Overture Films.

Paper Man, which was developed at the Sundance Labs, marks the Mulroneys’ directorial debut.